Faculty

Jamila D. Smith, Assistant Professor of English

Research Interests: Black feminisms, Intersectionality in Oral and Written Narratives, Culturally Relevant Youth Literature, African American Children's and Young Adult Literature, Ethnography, and Portraiture

Education

B.A. Xavier University of Louisiana (English)M.F.A. Chatham University (Creative Writing/Children's and Adolescent Literature)Ph.D. The Ohio State University (Education/Adolescent, Post-Secondary, & Community Literacies)

Research

Black feminisms; Writing Children's and YA Literature, Culturally Relevant Youth Literature; Intersectionality in Oral and Written Narrative; African American youth and young adult literature; Adolescent, African American female, and Community Literacies; Ethnography and Arts-based research.